9p: Use kthread_stop instead of sending a SIGKILL.
Since the kthread api does not bump the reference count on
processes that tracked it is not safe allow user space to
kill the threads, as I still retain a pointer to the task_struct.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
diff --git a/fs/9p/mux.c b/fs/9p/mux.c
index 147ceef..c783874 100644
--- a/fs/9p/mux.c
+++ b/fs/9p/mux.c
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
vpt->muxnum--;
if (!vpt->muxnum) {
dprintk(DEBUG_MUX, "destroy proc %p\n", vpt);
- send_sig(SIGKILL, vpt->task, 1);
+ kthread_stop(vpt->task);
vpt->task = NULL;
v9fs_mux_poll_task_num--;
}
@@ -438,11 +438,8 @@
vpt = a;
dprintk(DEBUG_MUX, "start %p %p\n", current, vpt);
- allow_signal(SIGKILL);
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- if (signal_pending(current))
- break;
list_for_each_entry_safe(m, mtmp, &vpt->mux_list, mux_list) {
v9fs_poll_mux(m);